AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs AMD Radeon 530X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and AMD Radeon 530X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1021 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
Launch date 7 Jan 2018 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed 1100 MHz vs 1021 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 530X

  • 3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
  • 8.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 28019 vs 3208
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 384 vs 128
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 28019 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 530X

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
3208
28019
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 AMD Radeon 530X
PassMark - G2D Mark 244
PassMark - G3D Mark 506
Geekbench - OpenCL 3208 28019

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 AMD Radeon 530X

Essentials

Architecture Vega GCN 1.0
Code name Vega Raven Ridge Meso
Launch date 7 Jan 2018 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 958 840
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz 1021 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 128 384
Transistor count 4500 million 1,040 million
Core clock speed 730 MHz
Floating-point performance 784.1 gflops
Texture fill rate 24.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt

API support

DirectX 12.1

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 32 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5